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A review by bittersquirrel
Snow by Ronald Malfi
3.0
The biggest problem I had with this book was the dialogue, the main character being particularly cringe-worthy. The most interesting characters always ended up dying, and the romance aspect felt completely unnecessary.
I should have known from the first scene in the airport that the main character was going to drive me crazy.
If I had to read “blessedly” or hear something compared to the Holocaust one more time I was going to stop reading. I really wanted an explanation so I soldiered on, and did not get that payoff. Just left with more questions, which can be fine but after all that I felt like a little more of an ending was deserved.
I did enjoy aspects of this book, and it felt particularly fun to read during a snow storm! I found the action sequences held my interest, I liked the second main character quite a bit - outside of the romance aspect with the main character. The descriptive writing made it easy to picture everything as it happened like I was watching a movie. I was still in the end unimpressed with the character development and the flat ending. I wouldn’t let that deter me from reading another book by this author though as I have heard good things about his other work. This one however didn’t live up the the hype, so I will adjust my expectations going into the next one.
I should have known from the first scene in the airport that the main character was going to drive me crazy.
If I had to read “blessedly” or hear something compared to the Holocaust one more time I was going to stop reading. I really wanted an explanation so I soldiered on, and did not get that payoff. Just left with more questions, which can be fine but after all that I felt like a little more of an ending was deserved.
I did enjoy aspects of this book, and it felt particularly fun to read during a snow storm! I found the action sequences held my interest, I liked the second main character quite a bit - outside of the romance aspect with the main character. The descriptive writing made it easy to picture everything as it happened like I was watching a movie. I was still in the end unimpressed with the character development and the flat ending. I wouldn’t let that deter me from reading another book by this author though as I have heard good things about his other work. This one however didn’t live up the the hype, so I will adjust my expectations going into the next one.